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A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.